Tag Archive for Tod Nielsen

While we may well be on the road towards VMware becoming the layer of software that talks to the hardware in the data center – removing Microsoft from that role, this is not the end of Windows. If Windows were just an OS, it would be severely threatened VMware insertion into the data center stack. But Windows is not just an OS. Windows is also a market leading applications platform with .NET have a far greater market share and base of developers than vFabric. Windows is also in the process of becoming a PaaS cloud – one that will be living at Microsoft, at thousands of hosting providers, and at probably every enterprise that is a significant Microsoft customer. This incarnation of Windows is at the beginning of its life, not the end.

Survey

Virtualization technologies and industry trends are in a constant state of evolution. To keep a tighter pulse on what our readers are planning and doing to refine virtualization within their environments, The Virtualization Practice is running a survey focused on virtualized desktops and application resources.